Quote of the Day (Marin Alsop, on Music and ‘This World of Possibility and Sense of Joy’)

“Music enables me at particularly difficult moments to open up to this world of possibility and sense of joy. Nothing else gives me that feeling.”—Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra, quoted in “Soapbox: The Columnists—This Month: WSJ Asks Six Luminaries to Weigh in on a Single Topic; This Month: Music,” WSJ.com, September 2019 issue